The exhibition «Mirrorland. 150 years ago». Lewis Carroll (from archives of London’s National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, Great Britain), Aleksey Alekseev (Russia)

Museum of Modern Art «Plast-Art»
Chernihiv, Gorkogo, 6
23.09-09.10.2011

«What remains from me when I won`t remain»
Lewis Carroll «Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland»

Creation of artistic image… In spite of different realization forms, verbal and visual, fiction literature and artphotography play the same role.

World-famous fairy tales author Lewis Carroll was both a talented writer and not less interesting art photographer of the XIX century. His most well-known photographs are portraits of Alice Liddell who inspired him to create two undying masterpieces.

Also a fairy tale about a mysterious journey of Alice became a storyline for the project “Mirrorland” created by our contemporary Aleksey Alekseev. It tells about parallel worlds where people echoing the characters of Lewis Carroll live according to their own laws and rules which are sometimes logical, sometimes absurd, out of time and prejudice. The project is made in ambrotype technique which is a type of wet plate collodion process invented in England in the middle of the XIX century. Just that very process was used by Lewis Carroll. So this is how two authors and two stories have met: fairy-tale Alice from modern “Mirrorland” and Alice Liddell – prototype of the character. There is 150 years between them.

Curator: Irina Ruzina

• The main project
  • The exhibition «Mirrorland. 150 years ago». Lewis Carroll (from archives of London’s National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, Great Britain), Alexey Alexeev (Russia)
• School of mastery
  • The exhibition «Pictorial school». Semen Prosyak, Мark Milov (Ukraine), , Аleksandr Feldman (Ukraine), Yana Arkhangelskaya (Ukraine), Yuriy Brodski (Germany, Ukraine), Stanislav Tolkachev (Ukraine), Melor Nazarov (Ukraine)
  • The exhibition «Diary of madmen». Members of creative group «Stankovaya Fotografia XXI»: Michael Kalamkarov (Moscow, Russia), Anna Block (Moscow, Russia), Irina Ruzina. (Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • The exhibition «Time shift». Masters of oil-print: Sergey Chekh (Ukraine) and Oleksii Pishtar (Ukraine)
  • «Essences» (Ukraine). The exhibition of Anastasiya Zavalo.
  • Lithuanian school. Vitas Luckus (Lithuania)
• School of survival
  • Chris Maluszynski «Tory Island, Ireland»
  • Irina Popova «Parting with Kezhma» (Russia, Holland)
  • Alexander Glyadyelov «One and prison» (Ukraine)
  • Loli Kantor «There was a Forest»
  • Jens Olof Lasthein «Waiting for the future» (Sweden)
  • Yevgeniya Belorusets «Gogolevskaya str., 32» (Ukraine)
    
• Alternative view
  • «The Main lesson». Photographic Alternative’s project (UPHA)
    
  • Aleksandra Kanonchenko «7-45. School bus» (Minsk, Belarus)
    
  • The exhibition of Portfolio-Review finalist -2010. «Episodes» Vadim Kozlovskiy (Ukraine)